Yankees at Nationals (7:08 PM, ESPN) Opening Day is here at last! The 2020 MLB season gets underway tonight with a premier matchup, as the New York Yankees travel to the nation’s capital to face the reigning World Series-champion Washington Nationals. Gerrit Cole will take the mound for the Yankees and will oppose Nationals ace Max Scherzer. Dr. Anthony Fauci will throw out the first pitch....
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According to Marly Rivera of ESPN, the Major League Baseball Players’ Association has “approved the agreement discussed with MLB for expanded playoffs, only for the 2020 season”, which would increase qualifying postseason teams in each league from five to eight. A reported $50 million postseason player pool has been agreed upon, per Evan Drellich, The Athletic. The only hurdle...
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Jon Heyman of MLB Network reports that the Royals are close to signing right-handed pitcher Matt Harvey to a minor league deal. Harvey, 31, had been a hot topic with Mets fans over the last 24 hours following the news of Marcus Stroman going on the injured list. The former Met struggled mightily in 2019, posting a 7.09 ERA in 12 starts for the Angels before getting released. The former All-Star...
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On the eve of Mets’ 2020 Opening Day, their second-year GM Brodie Van Wagenen talked to reports about a variety of different topics. The former agent opened the talks with a statement, “We have a group of players that are excited to start the season, we’re excited, we’ve got cutouts of the fans in the stadium, we’ve got an Opening Day game on national TV, and we are...
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The Nationals and Yankees face off tonight in the first regular season game of the 2020 baseball season. But one star will be missing it. According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Juan Soto will be missing the game as he has tested positive for COVID-19. Nationals GM Mike Rizzo announced that Soto is asymptomatic. Soto has tested negative multiple times throughout last several weeks, but can’t be...
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On Thursday, the Mets announced the 30-man roster they will begin the season with. The team has yet to announce the three-player taxi squad. The roster seems to indicate that RHP Corey Oswalt will take Marcus Stroman’s spot in the starting rotation after Stroman was placed on the injured list yesterday. Oswalt gets the nod over journeyman RHP Erasmo Ramirez and young LHP David Peterson,...
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